Bleachers

About Bleachers

The so-called “80s-nostalgia” indie pop band Bleachers infuses modern electronica with stylistic elements of the 80s. Headed by Jack Antonoff of Steel Train and Fun. fame, the band’s music is deeply personal, emotive, and lyrically evocative.

Their debut album Strange Desire was released July 10th, 2014, and was mostly written by Antonoff throughout his tour with fun. A very visceral, realized album that addresses death, memory, self-image, and spontaneity, among other themes, Desire showed the world the great potential Bleachers has to become the next pop act to become a household name.

The name “Bleachers” is meant to evoke the “disconnected, darker side” of suburban youth, and Antonoff says he was inspired by John Hughes movies and how they were “tied to a time when big songs were great songs.”